Urban Zen Foundation

Urban Zen’s Well-Being initiative aims to change the current healthcare paradigm to include integrative medicine and promote patient advocacy.

“It’s not either-or, it’s and,” says Urban Zen Founder and world-renowned fashion designer, Donna Karan, who was first introduced to eastern healing modalities when her husband was diagnosed with cancer years ago.

By combining western medical science with eastern healing practices like aromatherapy, yoga, and massage, the foundation strives to put the focus back on the patients and to treat them with as much passion as we treat the disease.

Young Living has contributed to the foundation’s Well-Being initiative since 2007, when we were invited to participate in the first-ever Well-Being Forum. Young Living also participated in the 2009 Nutrition Forum as part of an ongoing commitment to educate the public about key healthcare issues and the important role diet plays in disease prevention.

At the forum, Young Living Essential Oils Vice President of Sales and Marketing, Doug Corrigan, shared how a fundamental understanding of nutraceuticals can help people get the most for their dollar. Doug taught participants about essential nutrients, deficiencies, and the “behind-the-scenes” realities of mass-producing natural products. Doug joined a panel of physicians, professors, authors, and celebrities to provide nutrition education. Panelists included:

Mehmet Oz, MD

Rodney Yee

Kris Carr

Woodson Merrell, MD

Donna Karan

Sonja Nuttall

Dr. Jamie Naughtright

Jill Pettijohn

Colleen Saidman Yee

Through the foundation’s first-ever Integrative Therapist Program, Urban Zen is making great advancements towards combining western medicine and holistic, alternative therapies like aromatherapy, yoga, Reiki, therapeutic massage, and nutrition.